Portable drain receptacle

Abstract

A hand held apparatus for holding, storing and draining in separate subcompartments cleansing utensils such as scouring pads, sponges, soaps, brushes and the likes in a single container that can rest on the top of a counter and be stored in the back of a cabinet door. A removable collection basin is slidably mounted on the bottom to collect and hold the dripping liquid from these utensils. The "caddie" type of container being sufficiently small to be hand carried and its components being easy to separate so as to be washed in a household type dishwasher.

I claim: 
     
       1. A hand held apparatus for holding, storing and collecting liquid draining from cleansing utensils comprising a first open ended container having opposing parallel front and back walls, a pair of opposing side walls, a bottom wall and a plurality of axially spaced vertical wall members extending from said side walls and between said front and back walls and said bottom wall defining a plurality of subcompartments for holding the cleansing utensils adapted for household cleaning, a slidably mounted removable basin for collecting and storing the liquid comprising a second open ended container being contiguous relative to said first container and having opposing parallel front and back walls, a pair of side walls, and a bottom wall, means for slidably mounting said first container relative to said second container including opposing complementary rails mounted on the face of the front and back walls of said first container and said second container to removably hold said first container and said second container in contiguous position relative to each other, spaced holes in said bottom wall in each of said subcompartments communicating with said second container through said opened end thereof for collecting the liquid from said utensils in said second container, said means for slidably mounting said first container to said second container includes an elongated slot fitting including an elongated slot formed in the bottom edge of said front wall and said back wall of one of said containers which locks with a complementary projection extending from the top edge of said front wall and said back wall of said other one of said containers. 
     
     
       2. A hand held apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the elongated slot fitting is of a dove tail type. 
     
     
       3. A hand held apparatus for holding, storing and collecting liquid draining from cleansing utensils comprising a first open ended container having opposing parallel front and back walls, a pair of opposing side walls, a bottom wall and a plurality of axially spaced vertical wall members extending from said side walls and between said front and back walls and said bottom wall defining a plurality of subcompartments for holding the cleansing utensils adapted for household cleaning, a slidably mounted removable basin for collecting and storing the liquid comprising a second open ended container being contiguous relative to said first container and having opposing parallel front and back walls, a pair of side walls, and a bottom wall, means for slidably mounting said first container relative to said second container including opposing complementary rails mounted on the face of the front and back walls of said first container and said second container to removably hold said first container and said second container in contiguous position relative to each other, spaced holes in said bottom wall in each of said subcompartments communicating with said second container through said opened end thereof for collecting the liquid from said utensils in said second container, the upperside of said bottom wall of said first container is concave shaped in the direction between said front wall and said back wall to define a trough in each of said subcompartments for directing the liquid that drains from each of said cleansing utensils toward the center of said subcompartments, the top edge of said plurality of axially spaced vertical wall members are recessed to define a lower section in said subcompartments for allowing the access to each of said utensils, the top edge of said pair of side walls of said first container are recessed to complement said recessed top edge of said plurality of axially spaced vertical wall members, means for attaching said apparatus on a vertical wall, and the top edge of each of said side walls of said second container is recessed to define a gap between said first container and said second container to permit the recirculation of air through said second container, said spaced holes in said bottom wall of said first container and said first container.